[BenLurkin]

Looks Mesopotamian to me: http://www.livescience.com/48881-photos-unknown-roman-god.html

[Cowboy Bob]

Maybe it was a guy being eaten by a plant?

[Flag_This]

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate."

[PGR88]

I can just imagine some ancient Romans having a laugh - let’s put your drunken brother-in-law’s image on the wall!! People will think he’s some kind of local god!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[tnlibertarian]

This him?

[PIF]

[csvset]

Probably an advertisement for an herbalist.

[centurion316]

This is the god of Green Energy. Still worshiped today by followers of the Democrat cult, sometimes called Liberals, Progressives, or Tree Huggers.

[Blogatron]

Unitarius. God of ?

[Larry Lucido]

The 1st century B.C. relief, of an enigmatic bearded god rising up out of a flower or plant

Father-priest: Enigmatic?

George: No.

Father-priest: Vast? (he pronounces it as "vost")

George: No not vast (he pronounces it as "vost")

Father-priest: Well whatever it is, basically you like the religion.

George: Yes.

Father-priest 2: Is there one aspect of the faith that you find particularly attractive?

George: (he thinks) I think the beards and the flower pots.

[Larry Lucido]

The 1st century B.C. relief,

Maybe it's Alka Seltzer (you know - what a relief it is!)

Okay, I'll go away now. :-)

[3Fingas]

Romans just added local gods to their collection whenever the conquered a new place. It helped assimilate the local population into the empire/republic.

[Donkey Odious]

Obviously, it depicts the god of witty sayings - Cornfucious.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It appears to be a half human, half snake figure rising up out of foliage. There are scales on the sides of the figure in the foliage, there is s snake tale down below. he is holding on to a tree. Artists are not always very good at botany. 1) one of the corn gods that has to fall to earth and die and be buried before rising to life or, if the time frame is off abit, 1) it may be the Serpent in the Garden before he loses his limbs.

[Hugin]

Romans incorporated the worship of all their conquered peoples gods in order to make it easier to assimilate them. So this “Roman god” probably wasn’t.

[TigersEye]

We call him Maize!

[married21]

The origin of the Jolly Green Giant?

But really, it looks like he and the plant are being blown out of the horn or shell beneath him. Is he being made from the breath of a deity perhaps?

Also, the wavy line on the left looks like an elephant’s trunk to me— another thing that blows air.

[Sawdring]

Swamp thing?

[Pelham]

Little Shop of Horrors.

feed me.